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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hammersmith 1918
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1918
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Measles and German Measles.—Measles was epidemic
throughout the borough during the first six months of the year,
and 1,664 cases were notified, with 44 deaths, giving a case
mortality of 2.6 per cent.
Nursing of Measles.—The arrangements made by the Council
with the Fulham and Hammersmith District Nursing Association,
for the services of nurses in cases in which it appeared to the
Medical Officer of Health that nursing assistance was required,
was taken advantage of in a good many cases.
Tuberculosis.—The notifications of new cases received during
the year numbered 374, 330 being of pidmonary and 44 of other
forms of tuberculosis.
The following table gives the sex and ages of the persons
notified:—
Summary of Notifications during the period from the 30th December, 1917, to the end of the week ending on the 28th December, 1918.
| Age Periods. | Number of Notifications on Form Form "A" | Notifications on Form " B " | Number of Notifications on Form "C" | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Notifications. | Total Notifications on Form "A" | Primary Notifications. | Total Notifications on Form "B" | Poor Law Institutions. | Sanatoria. | |||||||||||||||||
| 0 to 1. | 1 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 55 | 55 to 65 | 65 and upwards | Total. Pri. Not. 1 | Under 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 fo 15 | Total. Pri. Not. | |||||||
| Pulmonary. Males | - | 1 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 30 | 31 | 21 | 5 | 4 | 129 | 170} | 363 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4} | 14 | 45 | 77 |
| Pulmonary Females | - | - | 11 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 34 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 128 | 154} | - | - | 3 | 3 | 5} | 27 | 58 | ||
| Non-Pulmonary. Males | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | 18} | - | 1 | 1 | 2} | - | 1 | |||
| Non-Pulmonary, Females | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 21 | 21} | - | 2 | 2 | 3} | 1 | 4 | |||
Mortality from Tuberculosis.—190 deaths were registered
from pulmonary tuberculosis representing a death rate of 1.6 per
1,000 compared with 1.7 in 1917.
To other forms of tuberculosis 40 deaths were ascribed, 17.4
per cent, of the deaths from all causes being due to some form of
tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis Dispensary.—Your Dispensary was opened on
the 1st September, 1918, Dr. It. Govan being appointed Tuberculosis
Officer.